Re: Different Formats for Different Countries -- Variable Density B&W Film

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:00:57 -0800, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>And why, pray tell, would I want to do that? Just as I may ask why we 
>(the U.S., and even, for that matter, parts of the UK) should abandon 
>our venerable measurement system in favor of the metric system? (Don't 
>know if you're aware of it, but there's *trememdous* oppostion to 
>metrificiation both here in the U.S. and abroad.)

As someone who considered being a machinist, I can think of a huge
number of instances where the metric system is vastly superior. For
starters is't a base 10 system. How many fingers do you have ? It's
natural to use a base 10 system of measurements. Now it might have
been quite different if we were all born with 5 fingers + 1 thumb  ;>)
But just think of the implications of using a base 10 system of
centimeters/decimeters/meters and milliters/decaliters/liters versus
inches/feet/yards and ounces/pints/quarts/gallons. It's much the same
as using the precision of decimal versus fractions. It's still my
opinion that this was one of the major factors that helped Japan
production quality outstrip American engineering in the late 50's ~
70's. Have you ever worked on cars built in those years ? Man did they
have quality issues !

In short the metric system is far more precise and natural than using
any other common set of measurements.

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     John S. Douglas
     Photographer & Webmaster
     Legacy-photo.com - Xs750.net